Poultry-house.



No. 782,063. PATENTED FEB. 7, 1905. G. G. SCOTT. POULTRY HOUSE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15.1904.

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G. G. SGOTT. POULTRY HOUSE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15,1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented February '7, 1905.

GERARD O. SCOTT, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

POULTRY-HOUSE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,063, dated February7, 1905.

Application filed February 15,1904. Serial No. 193,482.

To all whom it 111/11 (full/0677M Be it known that I, GERARD O. SCOTT, acitizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county ofFranklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Poultry-Houses, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to the improvement of poultry-houses of that classwhich are adapted for raising and fattening poultry for the market; andthe objects of my invention are to provide an improved poultry-houseconstruction of this class which may be easily maintained in a sanitarycondition and which is so constructed as to provide a compactarrangement of poultry containing compartments adapted to house forfattening purposes a large number of fowls. These objects I accomplishin the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure1 is a sectional view through three tiers of compartments, taken on line1 y of Fig 2; and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the compartment shownin Fig. 1, the lower compartment being for the sake of clearness inillustration broken away to the dotted line :1: :1: of Fig. 1.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

My improved poultry-containing structure is preferably located within asuitable building, of which 1 represents one of the vertical wallsthereof, and 2 the floor. Supported ata suitable point within saidbuilding and preferably extending throughout the length or greaterportion of the length of the building is a comparatively narrow verticalbin or reservoir 3, the upper open end of which may have fed therein inany suitable manner material hereinafter specified. Thislongitudinally-arranged bin 3 has supported from the opposite facesthereof at intervals one above the other housings or inclosures whichextend throughout the length or the greater portion of the length of thebin. Each of these housings or longitudinally-arranged inclosurescomprises a horizontal floor portion 1, from the under side and outerportion of which depends suitable compartment-frames 5 of the next lowerhousingstructure. which are preferably filled with parallel rods or bars6, and these frames and rods, in conjunction with suitably-filleddoorframes 7, form the fronts or outer portions of the compartmentswhich are produced by interposing between said outer frame portions andthe surfaces of the bin 3 transverse partitionframes 8, the latter beingarranged at desirable intervals one from the other. Thesepartition-frames are preferably filled with wirenetting, as indicated at9, and extendingacross the bottoms of said compartments at intervals areparallel wires 10. false provide a roosting board or bar 11, whichextends longitudinally through the lower portions of the compartments ofeach horizontal row. Extending across the fronts of the compartments andnear the lower portion of each of the same is a feed-trough 12, fromwhich the fowls contained in the compartments may obtain their food bythe insertion of their heads between the bars or rods 6. Formedlongitudinally in the walls of the vertical and central bin 3 areslotted openings 13, the latter communieating, as shown, with the spaceswhich are between the under sides of the compartments.

From the construction shown and described it will be seen that thecompartment-forming structures, which are arranged on opposite sides ofthe bin 3, are so supported from said bin as to result in the separationof the under sides of one tier of compartments from its floor, the saidfloor forming the top of the next lower compartments, with the resultthat the droppings or refuse matter from the compartments will passthrough the open-work floorings of the compartments and onto said floorsor compartment-tops or into such material as may be discharged thereonfrom the central bin 3. This bin is intended to be kept constantlyfilled with a supply of suitable absorbent material, and it is obviousthat while a certain amount of such material will by its passage throughthe slotted openings 13 accumulate upon the floors of the compartmentsthe natural choking of the openings 13 by the accumulation of materialabout the entrances to the same will prevent a constant flow from thebin. This absorbent material which is thus discharged from the bin ispermitted to cover the compartment-floor 1, where it may receive andabsorb the refuse material above referred to. Owing to the fact that thespaces beneath the compartment structures are clear of obstruction, itis obvious that by the employment of a suitable device, such as ascraper operated manually or otherwise, the combined absorbent andrefuse materials may be readily drawn outward and over the outer edgesof the compartment-floors, thus permitting of the latter being retainedin a comparatively clean or sanitary condition.

Having now fully described my invention,

